Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] on to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A member with a holding of a similar size will be quite unable to present a credible challenge to the board because in any contested vote the bulk of shareholders who bother to participate can be relied on to support the incumbent management team . |
| 2 | In the following Experiment 2.3 various colours were used to test how far the eye can be relied on to judge backgrounds in the circumstances under which the eventual instrument would be used . |
| 3 | Free-scoring Ally McCoist has a modest international record — only 13 goals from 43 games — and no-one else can be relied on to fire the bullets . |
| 4 | Anything that you design within the programme can be saved on to disk for future use . |
| 5 | The implications of this failure are very far-reaching because , it is only if market forces can be counted on to produce good , or even tolerable , results that the abdication from all responsibility for strategic policy-making can for a moment be justified . |
| 6 | Taboo is contagious ; it can move from the prohibited act to a person , and by extension the taboo can be displaced on to material objects which become transmitters of taboo . |
| 7 | As with the STANDARD version , shapes that you design in the ORIGINAL section can be superimposed on to stitch patterns created in the COLOUR PATTERN section . |